{"id":235812,"date":"2026-06-09T17:22:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-strives-to-excel-in-global-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:22:03","slug":"botswana-strives-to-excel-in-global-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-strives-to-excel-in-global-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Strives to Excel in Global Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Gaborone \u2014 The groundbreaking of the highly anticipated New Botswana City underscores Botswana&#8217;s intent to compete and participate meaningfully in the evolving global economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">This was said by the Minister of Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship, Mr Tiroeaone Ntsima during the project ground breaking ceremony in Gaborone on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Mr Ntsima indicated that government was fully committed to advance economic diversifica-tion, industrialisation, export development, citizen economic empowerment&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606090096.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 The groundbreaking of the highly anticipated New Botswana City underscores Botswana&#8217;s intent to compete and participate meaningfully in the evolving global economy. This was said by the Minister of Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship, Mr Tiroeaone Ntsima during the project ground breaking ceremony in Gaborone on Friday. Mr Ntsima indicated that government was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,5762,16077,6212,257,254,15285],"class_list":["post-235812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-economy","tag-excel","tag-global","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strives"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}